southern arrow wood

southern arrow wood
noun
deciduous shrub of eastern North America having blue-black berries and tough pliant wood formerly used to make arrows
Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush
Member Holonyms: ↑Viburnum, ↑genus Viburnum

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